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Quoting John Kearney <john.kearney@ns.sympatico.ca>:
> As an social anthropologist, I find it exciting that western science is
> discovering what indigenous people have known for millennia; namely that
> certain types of animal behaviour can serve as an early warning system for
> the approach of storms or natural disasters.
> However, on one island in the Indian Ocean where
> the indigenous culture had remained intact, the villagers did follow the
> lead of the animals and moved to higher ground thus avoiding any casualties.
* well, my Canadian brother-in-law in Kenya saw that the water level
was falling, inferred that a tsunami was underway, and hustled folks
to higher ground. Fortunately there wasn't a very high tsunami there -
but we were stuck at the time with the idea that anybody from coastal
BC, especially Haida Gwaii, would have reacted similarly.
fred.
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